how uninstall stuck software in Wine

hmichel · Post by **hmichel** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:21 am

I installed Rosetta Stone but it would not work. There are two instances of it in the wine uninstaller window (Rosetta stone tried to upgrade itself). Anyway, if you click one and hit uninstall it gives me a warning.. saying it cant do it.) How can I uninstall it via terminal?

Warren Dumortier · Post by **Warren Dumortier** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:36 am

Doesn't it ask to remove it from the list?

2009/10/22 hmichel <[email protected]>

I installed Rosetta Stone but it would not work. There are two instances of
it in the wine uninstaller window (Rosetta stone tried to upgrade itself).
Anyway, if you click one and hit uninstall it gives me a warning.. saying it
cant do it.) How can I uninstall it via terminal?

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:41 am

hmichel wrote:How can I uninstall it via terminal?

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae5 ... af2e69b391

hmichel · Post by **hmichel** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:15 pm

sorry I am new at this. Wouldn't that uninstall wine completely or at least take everything out of the applications>wine>programs directory??
The rosetta stone entry is not in that directory anymore... It just exsists in the applications>wine>uninstall wine software box.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:49 pm

As stated in the FAQ, Wine has its own uninstaller. Invoke it by running "wine uninstaller".

hmichel · Post by **hmichel** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 4:43 pm

sorry. Perhaps I am being dense. rosetta stone is stuck in the uninstall wine software dialog... wont come out via that. I dont want to uninstall all of wine, which is what the FAQ looks to do...

Please illuminate me on if I cant run uninstall via the applications>wine menu... what each part of said instructions do...

"Wine has its own built-in uninstaller - the equivalent of Windows' "Add/Remove Programs" function for running standardized uninstallers. In recent versions, a shortcut has been added to Wine's menu, along with a shortcut to winecfg." - wont uninstall from here.

Note that Wine does not fully implement everything required to cleanly uninstall all applications. Some uninstallers might not function at all. To remove all programs installed under Wine, remove the ~/.wine directory:

rm -rf $HOME/.wine - Dont want to uninstall all of wine.

Also the uninstaller does not remove menu and desktop entries. To remove all Wine-created menu entries run the following commands

rm -f $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/wine*
rm -rf $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/wine*
rm -f $HOME/.local/share/icons/????_*.xpm

- Dont want to delete all shortcuts in applications>wine, my problem rosetta stone app is not in that list anyway anymore..
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DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:22 pm

Remove the program directory right in ~/.wine itself and ignore (or remove) the entry in the applications list from that point onward.

It's also recommended that you install any such programs under a different wineprefix so you can test them out and remove them real quick before deciding to install them to the main wineprefix (~/.wine).

Running or installing a program under a different wineprefix works as follows:
WINEPREFIX=~/directory wine application.exe

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:39 pm

hmichel wrote:Wouldn't that uninstall wine completely

No, it won't. Wine is not installed into ~/.wine. It's a "data" directory for Wine.

Re-read FAQ, it says it all.